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...report describes ways to use science and technology to achieve goals set at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in September 2000. The summit aimed to improve living standards of developing countries by eliminating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and discrimination...
...overall aim of the project is to dramatically reduce the poverty that affects over two billion people worldwide,” said Erin Trowbridge, communications manger of the UN Millennium Project, noting that over 1.3 billion or one-sixth of the world population live in extreme poverty...
...Millennium task forces will issue a final project, “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,” on January 17th, when Columbia Professor of Health Policy and Management Jeffrey D. Sachs presents it to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York...
...official launch of the project’s final recommendations will also take place in over 100 other countries around the world. Juma is currently in Nairobi, Kenya to lead the Millennium Project’s official launch there...
Critics say the city is suffering from mismanagement and from the cost of Mayor Richard Daley's pet projects, among them the recently completed $475 million Millennium Park. "We don't want to cut services or raise property taxes. That's political suicide," says city alderman Ricardo Muoz. "So the tighter the budget gets, the more creative we get." The latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again...